More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 20, sentence 12

If his forthcoming book equals in charm, scholarship, and thoroughness his delightful _Games and Songs of American Children_, the Anglo-American folk-tale will be enriched indeed.

Who acts: American Children · What happens: enrich, sing · To what, where: American folk tale

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (American Children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 equals	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 equals	nmod:poss
3	forthcoming	forthcoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 equals	amod
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equals	compound
5	equals	equal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 charm	case
7	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equals	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scholarship	punct
9	scholarship	scholarship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charm	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thoroughness	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thoroughness	cc
12	thoroughness	thoroughness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 equals	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Games	nmod:poss
14	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Games	amod
15	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Games	compound
16	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thoroughness	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Songs	cc
18	Songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Games	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Children	case
20	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Children	amod
21	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Songs	nmod
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 Games	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 enriched	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tale	det
25	Anglo	Anglo	X	_	27 American	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Anglo	punct
27	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tale	amod
28	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tale	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 folk	punct
30	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 enriched	nsubj:pass
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 enriched	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 enriched	aux:pass
33	enriched	enrich	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thoroughness	conj
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 enriched	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 equals	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enrich	future · passive		the American folk tale				indeed property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	sing		American Children						nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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